Natural Gas Hedging: A Primer for Utilities and Regulators

 

What commissions need to learn.
What LDCs should already know.

The facts are now in. If utilities had hedged their natural gas purchases during the 1990s, they could have earned windfalls for those they serve, given the wild price gyrations of the past decade (). Yet few if any households or businesses saw any windfall, because few utilities were engaged in futures and other derivatives markets.

Off Peak

September 15, 2001

Let's Play "Spin the Pipeline"

 

The El Paso case just won't quit.

It began over a year ago, on April 4, 2000. That's when California accused El Paso Natural Gas Co. of manipulating capacity rights on its natural gas pipeline by auctioning them off to its own affiliate, El Paso Merchant Energy.

Benchmarks

Mail

 

Frontlines

DSM Revisited

 

 

After the Shakeout: Another Look at the Georgia Gas Market

 

Neptune and the Northeast

 

"Manufacturing companies locate around the world. You're seeing the same situation in the power business."

Off Peak

September 1, 2001

Online Shopping

 

Now you can buy a 20-MW gas turbine without ever leaving your desk.